Enterprise Storage and Backup Administrator

Location: Remote (Central European Timezone ±2 hours)
Start date: Immediate
Languages: English (fluent)
Industry: International Organizations, Enterprise IT Infrastructure, Storage & Backup
About the Company
Pragmatike is recruiting an Enterprise Storage & Backup Administrator on behalf of a prestigious international organization operating at a global scale. This organization manages critical infrastructure supporting worldwide initiatives, with a strong commitment to sustainability, diversity, and operational excellence.
Their IT ecosystem spans complex, heterogeneous environments, delivering highly reliable storage and backup services across multiple regions and stakeholders.
Your Responsibilities
• Administer the ICC’s Storage and Backup Infrastructures’ Systems

• Provide technical support for the ICC storage and backup infrastructures’ users (Connectivity, performance, troubleshooting, storage, backups, etc.)

• Manage the backup clients, schedules and retentions

• Monitor and evaluate the performance of storage and backup services

• Coordinate the replacement of failed Backup, Storage & SAN components, and service restoration

• Create and maintain detailed technical and graphical documentation as needed

• Develop/update tools and scripts to improve and automate the administration of the Storage and Enterprise Backup operations

• Lead complex projects involving storage solutions and products for mid-large environments

• Provide on-call rotation-based support outside of business hours

• Perform other duties as required

What You Bring

The consultant must demonstrate proven hands-on experience in enterprise storage and backup administration across heterogeneous environments, specifically including:

Enterprise Storage Platforms

• Demonstrable administration and troubleshooting experience with multi-vendor enterprise storage arrays, with emphasis on:

  • NetApp ONTAP environments (FAS, vNAS/file/object services, SolidFire)

  • Dell PowerStore or equivalent block storage platforms

  • CEPH

• Experience performing provisioning, performance troubleshooting, lifecycle maintenance, and incident resolution in production environments

SAN & Storage Transport Technologies

• Strong working knowledge of storage networking concepts and technologies

• Hands-on administration of Cisco MDS Fiber Channel fabrics

• Ability to troubleshoot end-to-end connectivity issues between hosts and storage

Replication & Host Integration

• Solid technical understanding of:

  • Storage replication and data protection technologies

  • Host integration and best practices

  • OS-specific storage tuning and performance considerations

Backup & Data Protection Platforms

• Extensive experience installing, configuring, and administering enterprise backup platforms, including Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Data Domain and Veeam backup and replication.

• Experience managing policies, retention, client onboarding, and recovery workflows

• Working familiarity with disk-based and tape-based backup architectures

Networking Fundamentals

• Practical understanding of enterprise networking fundamentals relevant to storage operations, including Ethernet switching concepts, TCP/IP stack behavior, Routing basics and Link aggregation (LACP)

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience developing scripts or automation workflows using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible or similar automation frameworks

• Experience with Microsoft 365 backup solutions such as AvePoint and Spanning

• Exposure to Software Defined Storage (SDS) platforms

• Working knowledge of Linux administration and Microsoft Windows Server environments

• Familiarity with virtualization platforms such as VMware
  Why This Role Will Pivot Your Career
  • You’ll operate infrastructure that actually matters — at global scale
  • You’ll work on complex, non-trivial systems (not just maintain them)
  • You’ll gain exposure across storage, backup, networking, and reliability
  • You’ll have room to automate, improve, and influence how things are built
  • Strong potential for long-term engagement
  Pragmatike is dedicated to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process. We ensure that no applicant is discriminated against based on age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
  In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), your personal data will be processed lawfully, fairly, and securely. We collect and use your personal data solely for recruitment purposes, including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration. You have the right to request access, correction, or deletion of your data at any time.
  We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.